{"id":904779,"date":"2025-02-11T11:16:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T05:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=904779"},"modified":"2025-02-11T11:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T05:46:34","slug":"microsoft-co-founder-bill-gates-on-why-he-gave-4-of-his-shares-to-future-ceo-steve-balmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/11\/microsoft-co-founder-bill-gates-on-why-he-gave-4-of-his-shares-to-future-ceo-steve-balmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on why he gave 4% of his shares to \u2018future CEO\u2019 Steve Balmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, has described his close relationship with Steve Ballmer, who became the CEO of the company after Gates left, in his memoir, \u201cSource Code: My Beginnings\u201d. Gates gave Ballmer a 4% stake in the company to convince him to join the company.<\/p>\n<p>Gates portrays Ballmer \u2013 whom he met at Harvard in 1976 \u2013 as a kindred spirit, confidant, study buddy, and crucial business partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, has described his close relationship with Steve Ballmer, who became the CEO of the company after Gates left, in his memoir, \u201cSource Code: My Beginnings\u201d. Gates gave Ballmer a 4% stake in the company to convince him to join the company. Gates portrays Ballmer \u2013 whom he met at Harvard in 1976 \u2013 as a kindred spirit, confidant, study buddy, and crucial business partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}